The Tao of Anarchy: There is no God. There is no State. They are all superstitions that are established by the power-hunger psychopaths to divide, rule, and enslave us. It's only you and me, we are all true and real existence though in one short life. That is, We all are capable to freely interact with one another without coercion from anyone. We all are capable to take self-responsibility to find ways to live with one another in liberty, equality, harmony, and happiness before leaving this world forever. We all were born free and equal among all beings on this planet. We are not imprisoned in and by a place with a political name just because we were born there by bio-accident and social-chance. We are not chained to a set of indoctrinated beliefs that have been imposed upon us by so-called traditions. This Planet is home to all of us. No one owns it. We share the benefits from and responsibility to this Earth. We pledge no oath, no allegiance to no one; submit to no authority. We are all free and equal. The only obligation we all must undertake constantly with consistency is to respect the same freedoms and rights of others.

Yes, I dare say you do, because even if (for some unfathomable
reason) you haven’t read, watched or listened to everything I’ve ever
done relating to the Chinese social credit scheme (tsk tsk), then you’re
probably a TV-addled fluoride head who’s learnedallaboutitfrom the MSM repeaters.

But for those two or three people who have been living under a rock
for the past few years and somehow managed to avoid the story entirely,
here it is in a nutshell: The Chinese government is planning to assign a
“social credit” score to every single citizen by the year 2020. The
score is a measure of your behaviour. When you follow the rules, obey
Communist Party dictates, spread government-approved propaganda on
social media and generally behave like a “good citizen,” your score will
go up. Conversely, if you break the rules or otherwise act like a “bad
citizen,” your score will go down.

So what constitutes a “bad citizen?” Well, if I was doing my work in Chinese you could bet your bottom yuan that “visiting corbettreport.com”
would be on the list of no-no’s that would get your score docked.
Jaywalking, buying too many video games, posting links to sites that
promote political wrongthink, even associating with people whose credit
score is too low; all of these activities and basically anything else
that goes against the Communist Party’s wishes—even (gasp!) walking your
dog off leash—will send your social credit score plummeting.

Then what’s the consequence if your score sinks too low? Oh, you’ll
be barred from public transit. Your children will be denied access to
private schools. You’ll be prevented from obtaining a variety of jobs.
You won’t be able to stay at certain hotels. And that’s just for
starters. Once the system gets rolling, it’s quite obvious that those
who are ranked below a certain social credit score will be a literal
underclass, forced to eke out whatever meager existence they can cobble
together on the margins of society.

As you can imagine, China’s new system for keeping citizens in line
is being lusted after by would-be tyrants all over the globe. This
month’s case in point: Venezuela! That’s right, citizens of everyone’s
favorite socialist paradise are about to be treated to a new ID card
that will track and database a wide range of information about each of
them, from their medical records to their political affiliation to their
social media presence. And all of this information will be sent
straight back to the government.

If you think this ID card sounds suspiciously like a version of
China’s scoring scheme, then give yourself a cookie. You’re exactly
right. The Venezuelan cards (and the system underlying them) are, it
turns out, being manufactured by Chinese telecom ZTE. In fact, the
Venezuelan official who helped spearhead the program openly admits
that the entire idea to use the ID cards to track, monitor and database
citizens’ daily activities came from a special sneak preview of China’s
social credit system that he and other government bureaucrats received
when they visited ZTE headquarters 10 years ago.

Oh, and the name of this all-seeing, all-knowing, citizen tracking identification? The “fatherland card” (carnet de la patria). You can’t make this stuff up.

There are two things completely unsurprising about this story.
Firstly, it’s no surprise whatsoever that the socialist Venezuelan
government would see an opportunity for controlling its people’s
behavior and jump all over it. Secondly, it’s no surprise whatsoever
that the usual gaggle of MSM presstitutes would be eager to disseminate
this news.

Yes, establishment-friendly propaganda outlets from Slate to Reuters to the Texas Standard
are competing to outdo each other with scare stories about the
Venezuelan government’s Orwellian plan for complete control. The CIA’s favorite newspaper, The Washington Post, wins the competition with this masterfully headlined opinion piece:

So what gives? Why are the same mockingbird repeaters who are usually
competing to be the best cheerleader for jackbooted authoritarianism in
the good ol’ US of A suddenly swooning over themselves in a frenzy of
pearl-clutching at these latest developments in Venezuela and China?

The answer is pretty simple, actually. Look at a map of countries in
the crosshairs of the US State Department. Now look at a map of
countries that MSM outlets are allowed to criticize. Oh wait, it’s the
same map. Unsurprisingly, the establishment stenographers are happy to
write horror stories (true or not) about the enemy (real or imagined)
and loathe to criticize the very same actions originating from their own
government.

But there’s a conundrum here. As we all know (from some of those
works I mentioned at the beginning of this editorial), these tracking
and scoring technologies are already being tested and rolled out in
various forms at home. Yes, the gang of thugs who run our wonderful,
virtuous, liberty-hating “democratic” governments are rushing to roll
out the biometric scanners and government-issued tracking IDs and rewards for good citizenship
and all the other accoutrements of the coming social credit enslavement
grid. So at some point the very same MSM now jeering the Chinese and
Venezuelan social credit systems are going to have to do an embarrassing
about-face and start applauding the roll out of those very same
technologies at home, right?

Just look at The Washington Post. Recently, they published an opinion piece admonishing us that “The West may be wrong about China’s social credit system.”
You see, all this handwringing about Orwell and social control is just
wrongheaded because . . . reasons. Go read the article for yourself if
you want to hear those reasons, but they amount to semantic quibbling
about the use of the term “social credit” and a reminder that “China’s
governance tradition of promoting good moral behavior goes back
thousands of years” (seriously, go read the article).

“But wait!” says the poor, confused consumer of the MSM fake news media. “Isn’t this the very same Washington Post that was just telling us that this social credit system ‘must be stopped?'”

Well, kind of. Yes, that op-ed appeared on WaPo’s site, but it was in
fact published by “The World Post,” a partnership between WaPo and the
Berggruen Institute. If you’re wondering what the Berggruen Institute is
and why it’s producing Chinese puff pieces for the Post, then join the
club. I predict some Corbett Reporting on that institute in the future.

But here’s the take away from this hot mess: We’re going to be seeing
a lot more of this crazy doublethink (to use yet another Orwell
reference) in the future as the fake news purveyors twist themselves
into pretzel knots explaining why social credit systems and total
surveillance of the public is a dystopian nightmare in China and
Venezuela and certain other nations but a dream come true in the US and
Canada and Australia and Japan and the rest of the “good guy club.”

As always, reality is a lot easier to understand (and a lot more
consistent) than the propaganda lies that the establishment tries to
force down our throat. Isn’t it more sane to be against social credit
and total surveillance in all countries? Doesn’t that make more sense to you?

Well, I’ll leave you to answer those questions for yourself. All I
know is that I LOVE ALL GOVERNMENTS EVERYWHERE AND ACCEPT THEIR RULE
UNQUESTIONINGLY . . . and now I’m off to check my credit score!